{"id":417759,"date":"2026-04-26T01:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417759\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:41:12","slug":"theres-probably-two-or-three-season-enders-there-munster-and-ulster-left-to-count-the-cost-of-hugely-attritional-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/417759\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There&#8217;s probably two or three season-enders there\u2019 \u2013 Munster and Ulster left to count the cost of hugely attritional derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Injuries take the gloss off a convincing Munster win\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Munster head coach Clayton McMillan before the United Rugby Championship match between Munster and Ulster at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d840fa0e-b331-4c85-bf63-2666264e108f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Munster head coach Clayton McMillan before the United Rugby Championship match between Munster and Ulster at Thomond Park in Limerick. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Munster and Ulster were left to count the cost of tonight\u2019s bruising interpro derby at Thomond Park, where the hosts ran out comfortable 41-14 winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Having already lost Jack Crowley during the warm-up, Munster then saw captain Tadhg Beirne, second-row John Kleyn, winger Calvin Nash, centre Tom Farrell and tighthead prop Oli Jager all forced off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injuries take the gloss off a convincing Munster win Munster head coach Clayton McMillan before the United Rugby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13503,42,43771,11897,43,58217,40,38,41,39,31398],"class_list":["post-417759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cian-tracey","tag-headlines","tag-jack-crowley","tag-munster-rugby","tag-news","tag-tadhg-beirne","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}